The defence has argued from early in the trial that SJ police fixated on Dennis Oland as the guilty party early on and viewed everything in the case through that prism without considering other possibilities.

Says it's human nature to "distort facts in order to establish a proposition of guilt." "This is how our minds work," he says. "In our respectful submission, this case provides fertile ground for that to occur," he says

Lots of evidence of Richard Oland not using his phone and computers or returning messages the entire day of the murder and yet the crown views inactivity after 6:30 as evidence he was dead. Why? Confirmation bias.

Anthony Shaw’s very clear testimony of hearing the murder at 7:30 is dismissed as a guesstimate because it doesn’t fit the Crown’s theory. Richard Oland’s phone connecting to the Rothesay cell tower at 6:44 is considered proof Dennis has the phone only because it fits the theory

Gold attacking the testimony of John Ainsworth who also heard the noises Anthony Shaw heard. Ainsworth agreed the time of the noises were after 7:30 for three months after the murder until he realized that helped Dennis Oland.

eg. Crown considers lack of activity on Richard Oland's office computer and cellphone after approx 6:30 p.m. when Dennis had left as evidence he was dead by then. But no activity between 6:12 pm when Dennis left after 2nd visit and 6:21 pm when he went back to get logbook either

Re. final message received by Richard Oland's missing cellphone before it went silent being transmitted by cell tower near Renforth wharf where Dennis stopped on his way home - If you don’t assume Dennis is guilty, that ping is innocent, says Gold

Gold suggests there's no evidence to support Crown's position Oland was at risk of losing the ancestral family home again just 2 years after his father had provided $500K to ensure he didn't lose it in a divorce.

Had to step out briefly to file a story for radio news but have returned to court. Gold still building case that police bias and instant belief in Dennis Oland’s guilt tainted its evaluation of all evidence.

Dennis Oland’s zig zag route after leaving his father’s office for the second time as caught on security footage is not evidence of distress or disorientation - just normal distracted behaviour says Gold.

Gold says police admitted they deviated from accepted practices at the crime scene, issues with handling of evidence, inadequacies of investigation, yet Crown says defence can’t say any of it mattered. He strongly disagrees

Crown’s theory is that Dennis has been rejected for financial help by his father during visit #2 and leaves in distress before returning for the murder in visit #3 . Gold says lots of people forget where they park.

Gold concludes by rejecting the idea that there are too many circumstances that suggest Oland’s guilt to be dismissed. He visits the day of the murder. He arrived and leaves three times. He wears a jacket that has blood and his father’s DNA on it......

Cite him initially walking in the opposite direction of his parked car, sending a text to his sister instead of his wife, and turning the wrong way up a one-way street. "They're asking you to assume quite ordinary behaviour is somehow indicative of guilt," says Gold

.....he’s facing significant financial problems with the murder victim his largest creditor. The only item missing from the murder scene - a cell phone - connects to a cell tower in Rothesay at the same time Dennis is also in Rothesay. ...

Judge interrupts. Notes the defence in its brief also relies on demeanour evidence, such as Oland being captured on security video after leaving father's office casually talking to his aunt at Cochran's Country Market, arguing that's not the behaviour of a killer

.....statements to police include key omissions and errors including about the third and final visit to the office and the blood stained jacket worn that day. All these random events pieced together do not add up to a guilty verdict says Gold.

The crown has argued it is beyond belief that some other unknown person has committed the murder and just got lucky that all of these circumstances arose one after the other on that day to wrongly point to Dennis Oland instead.